 Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all ? Thou 'It come no more, Never, never, never, never, never ! Pray you, undo this button : thank you, sir.  The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical - Page 180by Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Robert S. Miola - 2000 - 206 pages
...252 sd). The grief-stricken father helplessly cradles his beloved daughter, 'dead as earth' (257): 'Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, | And thou no breath at all. O thou wilt come no more. | Never, never, never' (301-3). The agony of Lear's grief and the gratuitousness... | |
 | Steven Carter - 2000 - 192 pages
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 | William H. Wisner - 2000 - 138 pages
...slave that was a-hanging thee. I'll see that straight. And my poor fool is hanged: no, no, no life? Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'llt come no more. Pray you undo this button. Thank you sir. It was a moment, quite outside of... | |
 | Carla Mazzio - 2000 - 432 pages
...that her breath will mist or stain the stone, / Why then she lives"; "This feather stirs, she lives!" "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, / And thou no breath at all?": 5.3.262-64, 266, 3o7-8); Othello's on Desdemona's breath, before and after suffocating her ("O balmy... | |
 | Laura Dabundo - 2000 - 200 pages
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 | August J. Nigro - 2000 - 200 pages
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 | Geoffrey Hughes - 2000 - 452 pages
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 | Harry Pauley - 2000 - 462 pages
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 | Sean McEvoy - 368 pages
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 | John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - 2000 - 244 pages
...here as a term of endearment), cries out in his misery: And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all?2 (5.3.304-6) It's a question which commentators often try to answer. Samuel Johnson, of course,... | |
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